PCA’s Tanglewood Coffee House Endeavors to Keep Students’ Cups and Hearts Full
PCA will soon open a coffee house in the newly constructed secondary building addition. As a feature of the new multipurpose room, Tanglewood Coffee House will serve uniquely brewed coffees, teas and other coffee house staples for students, staff members and the PCA community to enjoy. In addition to serving coffee, Tanglewood will serve the students as a safe place to share their dreams and fears as well as discover their unique purpose in this life.
Tanglewood Coffee House will be owned and operated by Mary Greer, a 2004 graduate of Prattville Christian Academy. Since graduating, Mary has felt a calling into ministry and believes “coffee houses serve a need for many by providing them with a place to foster relationships and share aspirations.” Having earned a Masters in Social Work with an emphasis on children, adolescents and their families as well as her extensive internships and previous job experience, Mary has the technical training and practical skills in which to serve as an additional counselor, mentor and friend. Tanglewood Coffee House will focus on four goals as it seeks to refill our coffee cups as well as our hearts: intentional community, empowerment, discipleship and stewardship. Mary believes “that we need to connect with these students where they are and help them to determine what they want to do with their lives. My desire is to help whomever walks through the doors of Tanglewood Coffee House to know their purpose and receive the resources that they need to reach them.”
When asked about the future, Mary has a vision of adolescents from various backgrounds rising up to become a great generation for our country. There is so much potential in the youth of today to bring about positive to change in our community, country and world. She believes the best way to empower them is to forge meaningful relationships with them during their formative years and get them connected to something larger than themselves. “I see so much potential in PCA students and what can be done through them if we can get them to really be involved in our community now.” She desires to light a fire at PCA that will spread to our community.
The name Tanglewood Coffee House was pinned when thinking back to her family’s farm, Tanglewood Farms. When the land was purchased it was full of timber and once said that no one could walk from one end of the farm to the other without stepping off the tangle of wood; hence the farm became known as Tanglewood Farms. Knowing that she wanted more than just a good cup of coffee but more a focus on a place filled with intentional community, Mary envisioned a picture of tangled wood providing a pathway across the farm. Since then, the ministry became Tanglewood Coffee House: Where Coffee and Community Meet.
